Album Name

SHELTER (Acoustic Version)

Artist

Vic Mensa

Genre

랩/힙합

Release Date

2021.04.23

Release Agency

Universal Music Group

There's a war going on outside
Ay ah
There's a war going on outside
Nobody's safe from
But here in my arms
I'll keep you from harm
There's no guarantee tonight
That we will wake up
When night hates the morning
You hear no alarm ring
You can count on one thing
Wyclef told me Call 9-1-1
But who do you call
when the ambulances don't come
Or watch as the ones sworn
by law to protect us
Wrongfully convict us
then call it corrections
Next they bail the banks out
when we in recession
And hang us in a jail cell
so they can swing the elections
The Chicago streets
where potholes is deep
And Tahoes creep like TLC
Hospital workers in scrubs
with no PPE
But they got money
for riot gear my nigga
we dying here
Yet you tell me
not to move with my gun
But we got more funeral homes
than schools where I'm from
And on the news
all you view is homicides
Ain't no trauma units
when y'all are traumatized
Tryna get on your feet
playing the hand they dealt you
If your house is not a home
let this song be your shelter
shelter shelter
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah
If your house is not a home
let this song be your shelter
shelter
I'll be your superhero
When danger arrives
I'll be by your side
It's a hundred bags
under the underpass
Rumbling stomachs
cups jingle when Hummers pass
Brisk wind summer's done
winter is coming fast
Then their Zoom teacher wonder
why they don't come to class
The internet been out
the hot water been out
She moved to her aunt's house
then to her friend's couch
Her abuser went to jail
but that nigga been out
Wilson was in-house
producer was in-house
Homeless in the home
of the slaves
I wonder how that'd feel
The manifested destiny a bunch
of land they could steal
Think about Kenneth Walker
and Philando Castile
How they only wanted
to protect their family
And now it's niggas out here
that make it worse for they folks
It's a deeper
hotter hell for the worst
of these folks
It's a mystery we never heard
the murder she wrote
If we finally paid her back
the whole Earth would be broke
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah I
I'll be your superhero
When danger arrives
I'll be by your side
I write for my niggas doing life
with no possibility of parole
You playing Fortnite
that's how long
he spent in the hole
Live from death row
free my nigga Julius Jones
I had a dream that Mumia was home
I speak freedom in song
'Cause all I see is racist faces
Where hate lives
and they rape kids in cages
What kind of nation
lynch Elijah McClain
And send us to the Middle East
to die for their flag
They drive us insane
to sell us medication
We demand reparations
and they tell us Have patience
Instead of cash payments
we get minimum wages
They give us the Black Plague
and then send us a white savior
I found faith the day I lost hope
That's when Julius reminded me
of a bar I once wrote
Behind bars on the yard
where they dream of the street
On death row singing
We Could Be Free
We could be free
I'll be your shelter
Emergency
Please count on me yeah I
I'll be your superhero
When danger arrives
I'll be by your side
You're my lucky dime
Dime dime you're my lucky dime
I'll be
Dime dime you're my lucky
dime girl By your side
Dime dime you're my lucky dime
I will be
Dime dime you're my lucky
dime girl
Dime dime you're my lucky dime
I'll be your shelter
Dime dime you're my lucky dime
Emergency
Dime dime you're my lucky dime
Dime dime